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Statue Rentals #5: Carving
🕑 Added 2025-06-24 04:00:04 +0000 UTCThe relationship blooming between Meredith and Noriko all happened by accident. I love when a story surprises me. Finding 3D assets of carving tools took forever. It almost derailed this story. I love how the dress in the first panel is "non-work clothes" unlike the outfits in the next two panels.
Looking at it now, I didn't leave enough debris on the floor. When did all the excess marble go? I hope the missing marble wasn't anything Stacy was fond of. Because it looks like Meredith just discarded it.
NOTE: I've updated Statue Rentals #4 to include a bonus image. It shows the panorama of the art studio without various stuff overlayed on top.
Transcript
Top Row – Stone block being carved into a statue of a woman
Panel 1 – carving begins
Meredith, thinking: I really should have changed into my work clothes but I’ve been dying to release the statue inside this stone block for months now. I hope Stacy isn’t upset when they find out what they’ve become.
Panel 2 – carving middles
Panel 3 – bulk carving ends
Bottom Row
Panel 4 – precision carving
Noriko: Are you doing that to drive her crazy?
Meredith: There was a rough spot.
Noriko: On her lips? You know that drives a statue crazy.
Meredith: You know far more about that than I do. When are you going to be my canvas again?
Noriko: My statue days are done. Why are you dressed like that?
Panel 5 – stepping back
Meredith: I've been wearing boring clothes all week. Once they pick the statue up, I'm putting on my heels and we're hitting the club.
Noriko: I had no idea Stacy was such a beautiful woman.
Meredith: Yeah. About that. I meant to tell you. Stacy was a man until I carved her.
Noriko: Why didn't you hire a new model for this contract?
Panel 6 – leaving
Meredith: That block has been in my studio for three months. A woman has been waiting inside it this entire time. I could felt it every day.
Noriko: Don’t get metaphysical with me. What if he sues you?
Meredith: She won’t.
Comments
Magicshoppe
Yeah, conservation of mass isn't generally a thing in any flesh to/from stone transformation.
David Fenger
Perhaps she sweeps up every night. Hopefully any important bits got saved... but I figure the block of stone is so much bigger than the person was, it's magic and not worth worrying about. Yet.
Michael Hoe Guang Jian
At last, the part we've been waiting for.
